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| | | | | James Webb Space Telescope | |
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astroengine.com
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| | | | | A tiny rock has been detected in the Kuiper belt, which may not seem like such a big deal, but how it was found is. [NASA,ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)] We think we have a pretty good handle on how planets form. After the birth of a star, big enough clumps of dust and rock... | |
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| | | | | I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images exactly like Hubble does? The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won't see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWS... | |
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| | | Kuiper Belt Overview The Kuiper Belt is a doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies extending far beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is home to Pluto and Arrokoth. Both worlds were visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. There may be millions of other icy worlds in the Kuiper Belt that were left over from the formation [...] | ||
